[H-GEN] General Digest, Vol 148, Issue 1 hosting options

Wed Mar 2 14:56:18 EST 2016

Hi there

                Another +1 from me for digital ocean. I've used them for
the last couple of years never had a problem. I'd love to support binary
lane but the bandwidth is just too expensive. If you go with digital ocean
you should get someone in the lug group to send you their link so they get
a kickback ( think it's like five dollars off their next month) you could
also then use you link shared out to the lug member s going forward so that
anyone who spins up a new VM on their service for how ever long, the humbug
account will get a discount and reduce the overall cost of operating the
sites.

I believe that digital ocean is a KVM backend also but not 100% on that

Binary lane should do an affiliate link thing similar to digital ocean
perhaps for bandwidth.

Sincerely
Lewis
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   1. Re: Suggestions for a new host for www.humbug.org.au
      (David Harrison)
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      (Timothy White)

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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 11:56:24 +1000
From: David Harrison <davidharrison at gmail.com>
To: general <general at humbug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Suggestions for a new host for www.humbug.org.au
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I've just asked the guys at Binary Lane (https://www.binarylane.com.au/) to
see if they can swing a discount for HUMBUG (disclaimer: I'm one of the
founders but am not working there at the moment).

1TB bandwidth won't be doable (being Australian-based it's just too
expensive) but might be able to come closer after a discount.

--
dave

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Gary Curtis <gazilla at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Greg Black <gjb at yaxom.com> wrote:
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>> On 29 February 2016 at 12:13, Russell Stuart <russell-humbug at stuart.id.au
>> > wrote:
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>>> I am after input from people in the club who can vouch for an VM
>>> provider.  (Reply here.)  The VM needs a minimum 10G of disk, and 512MB
>>> of RAM, 1TB of bandwidth per month, a working responsive ticketing
>>> system, and a public IPv4 address that allows us to send and receive on
>>> ports 25 (email), 53 (dns), 80 (http), 443 (https), 465 (smtps) and 587
>>> (email submission), and all ports above 1024.  The major load is the
>>> backups, which scan the entire file system once per hour.
>>>
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>> ?Digital Ocean's basic service offers what you ask for (but with double
>> the disk) at $5 US per month. I've used them for quite some time with
zero
>> problems. The one time I used support (for a pebkac issue), they were
>> excellent. They have a 99.99% uptime SLA. They have locations in lost of
>> places, but the best bandwidth for us here is at their Singapore
location.
>>
>> They do have a TOS, but it essentially is aimed at abusive outgoing
>> stuff, not the sort of traffic we would generate. Their links are all
1Gbps.
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>> I recommend them strongly.
>> ?
>>
>
> ...and they (DO) are active supporters of Open Source, etc. They have
> sponsored CampJS twice (to my recollection).
>
> I know that the above is irrelevant to actual usage options, but its nice
> to support those who support us.
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> Gaz
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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 20:32:39 +1000
From: Timothy White <timwhite88 at gmail.com>
Cc: general at humbug.org.au
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Suggestions for a new host for www.humbug.org.au
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Linode. I know they aren't Australian,
but they have a Singapore datacenter, and at $10 USD a month, provide a
pretty decent deal. I've used them for multiple workplaces for more than 5
years now, and other than the DDOS they experienced early this year,
haven't had any issues. The DDOS they experienced only caused issues with
their DNS hosting, and getting into the control panel, the VPS was fine.

Otherwise, I use Digital Ocean for my other provider, as they are cheaper.
Again, no complaints about them, they even gave me $50 credit for reporting
a bug, which paid for a decent chunk of hosting!

Tim

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Russell Stuart <
russell-humbug at stuart.id.au> wrote:

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> As you can see from the exasperated tone of our secretary below, the
> hosting arrangements for Humbug's web site aren't working out so well
> at the moment.
>
> I am after input from people in the club who can vouch for an VM
> provider.  (Reply here.)  The VM needs a minimum 10G of disk, and 512MB
> of RAM, 1TB of bandwidth per month, a working responsive ticketing
> system, and a public IPv4 address that allows us to send and receive on
> ports 25 (email), 53 (dns), 80 (http), 443 (https), 465 (smtps) and 587
> (email submission), and all ports above 1024.  The major load is the
> backups, which scan the entire file system once per hour.
>
> The background to this is we are currently using Crissic (https://criss
> ic.net/ - don't winge to me, it neatly summarises the problem), which
> for USD$15/yr provides 10G/512MB/2TB.  Crissic worked well enough for
> us for about 2 years (there were some problems with them blocking port
> 25, but they fixed that after enough tickets were submitted).  However
> sometime in the past month Crissic has over committed the machine
> Humbug's VM runs on, to the point that it sometimes is hard to
> distinguish our VM from a dead one.
>
>
> On Sun, 2016-02-28 at 14:27 +1000, Clinton Roy wrote:
> > One thing we'll definitely be discussing is moving our vhost to
> > something that can provide enough cpu cycles to run our website and
> > wiki.
> >
> > As I write this announcement I can't actually get to the wiki, which
> > is why this announcement is light on detail...
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Russell Stuart
> wearing his Humbug Sysadmin hat.
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